Gender diversity on back order at online retailer

“You’ve Got Male: Too many Amazon guys for Seattle dating scene”: Kudos on the headline, MyNorthwest.com, which reports that Amazon now employs nearly 25,000 people, and 75 percent of them are male. Which prompts the question: Where’s Amazon’s dating site, Software Coder Harmony.com? With next day delivery, naturally.

Take a peek at our lunar litter, which Megan Garber reports in The Atlantic: “Here is a partial list of the trash that humans have left on the moon: more than 70 spacecraft, including rovers, modules, and crashed orbiters; 12 pairs of boots; 2 golf balls; an assortment of empty packages of space food; TV cameras; various hammers, tongs, rakes, and shovels; backpacks; insulating blankets; utility towels; used wet wipes; discarded personal hygiene kits; and 96 bags containing the urine, feces, and vomit of departed astronauts. Humans have left, all told, nearly 400,000 pounds of stuff on the surface of the moon; …”

Now, the Japanese beverage maker Otsuka plans to add to the garbage by sending a (powdered) energy drink in a titanium can to the moon. As Garber writes: “… the march of human progress has come to an inevitable point in its evolution: we’re about to use our celestial neighbor as an enormous billboard. With the product in question being a powdered sports drink. Because what good is the final frontier if not for helping to sell some stuff here on Earth?”

Exactly. So how long will it take for the first lunar pharmaceutical ad? How many times will the list of possible side effects circle the moon’s circumference?